Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-16

incurred at the gaming table. Just
before the lean, Fellows had been
Assistant District Attorney. Fellows
being interviewed, admitted that he had
received aid from the chief of all boodlers,
but denied that he ever had any other
money transactions with Tweed. Where
upon the newspapers unearthed still an
other letter, and printed it in fac simile,
showing that other sums of money had
passed from Tweed to Fellows Yet, Pres
ident Cleveland, with this evidence pre-
sented to him, would not withdraw his
Endorsement. The Doodle element, the
President and the Democracy therefore
managed to elect Fellows, and Jake Sharp
in his dungeon cell unquestionably rejoices
loudly.
Fellows was an ex-Confederate General
who, though born and raised on free soil,
went South and took up arms against the
flag of the nation. He is noted as an i'm
pecunious man, devotee of the green
cloth-covered table and the friend of the
boodlers, yet the President of the United
States descended from his high station to
write letter to be used in the campaign
to elect this man to the great trust of the
District Attorneyship of the chief city of
the continent. Verify, Mr.. Cleveland is
reformer. He has cast his influence for
man who dragged the Democratic vote in
New York city many thousands below the
plurality cast for Secretary of State, and
who attained his shallow victory by prac-
tices the leading journals of New York do
not hesitate to pronounce as corrupt.
Then the New York Times, which has
supported Mr.. Cleveland steadily, says:
There was a vast mass of ignorant and cor
ruptble vot ers and of men in the nav Of tho
bosses" and leadersto be commended against
An enormous amount of money was expended
in the city to secure the result of YESTERDAY
Men were hired as workers to secure their votes,
and in some districts the leaders and workers
OF the other party were corrupted to betray the
interests in their charge. Efforts were made
with more or less success, to substitute those
VINO represented the two labor factions and
there were bargains for the benefit of local dis
trlct candidates at the cost of those on the gen
eral ticket; The criminal and lawless, the ig-
norant and the vicious, were arrayed with the
thoroughgoing Democratic partisans to defeat
the efforts of honest and independent citizens
TO put the best men in office.
Certainly Mr.. Cleveland is reformer;
reformers, of course, countenance candi-
dates who win by such means.
There was rejoicing in the American
colony in Canada when Colonel Fellows
election was announced there. Yet Mr..
Cleveland, the reformer, supported the ex-
Confederate candidate. There will be no
more convictions of "boodlers," exclaims
the New York Tribune. The Post, which
did its level best for Mr.. Cleveland weep
ingly said to him:
We take leave to inform the President that
his knowing of nothing that would prevent his
supporting Mr.. Fellows candidacy Is a striking
proof of the improperly of his interfering at ali
in local contests of this nature. To
send on a written Endorsement of candidate
of whose life and manners we are bound out of
respect for Mr.. Cleveland's person and office, to
presume that he knows nothing. or next to
nothing and whose defeat almost every disin-
terested and intelligent voter of both parties in
the city Is trying TO compass, is something very
hard to bear.
But Mr.. Cleveland, though the Demo-
cratic World held up its hands in protest
against his Endorsement, did not withdraw
it. Certainly Mr.. Cleveland is reformer,
and will not touch anything vile or con-
spire with any but pure agencies to COM
pass second term, and of such are those
that bought and bargained Colonel Fellows
into Office in New York City.